In taming globalization, John Yoo argues that dozens of international institutions like the International Court of Justice and the World Trade Organization present an unavoidable challenge to American constitutional law. He argues that America must re-conceptualize the Constitution and must recognize the President's power to terminate international agreements and interpret international law. Come hear his thought provoking arguments."

John Yoo

John Yoo is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. He served from 2001 to 2003 as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security, and the separation of powers.

He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and the Free University of Amsterdam, and in 2006 he held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento, Italy.

A visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, he is the author of War by Other Means and The Powers of War and Peace.

John Yoo, Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley, discusses the influence of globalization on nation states. Yoo argues that the complexity of globalization is laying the foundation for "global governance", a paradigm that threatens state sovereignty.